From the daughter-father duo that created Brooklyn's beloved live pun competition comes Punderdome, the "Punderful card game [that] will replace Cards Against Humanity at your next party" (Mashable.com).

One part game, one part conversation starter, you don't need to be a pun master to master Punderdome: the goal is to make bad jokes and have fun along the way.

A player (the prompter for that round) draws two prompt cards from the deck, and then reads the prompts to the rest of the group, who have 90 seconds to create a single, groan-worthy pun that combines the two prompts.  

When time is up, pun makers share their puns with the prompter, who awards the prompt cards to the player whose pun he or she likes best. The winner then draws the next pair of prompt cards and the process repeats. Players win by obtaining 10 pairs of cards.

Every Game Set Comes With:
·         200 double-sided cards (100 White and 100 Green)
·         2 Mystery Envelopes with fill-in prize slips
·         2 80-page pads for drafting puns
·         1 instruction card and 1 pun example card
·         A stu-PUN-dous time for 3 or more players

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When I saw this game, I was super excited. Who doesn't love a good pun? Okay, I know there are people but as someone who has multiple friends who are pun masters, I thought this would be great. Sadly, not so much.

If you play by the rules, you're given 90 seconds to take two topics and make a pun out of them. I'm afraid that most of our brains just didn't work that fast. We quickly discovered that it was a lot more fun to toss the rule book to the side and to just see what we could come up with.

Final thoughts? If you're a pun master, you may love this game. If you're not, this one is going to be a tough draw. It advertises itself as a replacement for Cards Against Humanity. Sadly, it's just wrong. I will say though that the packaging is lovely...which really feels like me just coming up with something nice to say.


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Think you’re pretty smart? Turn the pages to play your moves and watch as Tic Tac Tome beats you forward, backward, and diagonally. Tic Tac Tome features more than 1,400 pages, hundreds of draws and losses, and just one way for a clever reader to win. No apps, batteries, or touch screens required—Tic Tac Tome is powered by good old-fashioned book smarts. It’s deceptively simple, endlessly addictive, and (nearly) impossible to defeat. Complete with introduction and FAQs for the unfamiliar and unsure, Tic Tac Tome is the smartest book you’ll ever cross.





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Okay, let's face it. We've all played this game at some point in our lives. Some of us are better at it than others, but none of us could imagine that a book could beat us. This book, in all it's swagger, declares that it's going to do just that. Well, let me tell you, I couldn't put this darn book in its place. Granted, it never beat me and I'm sure that the war is far from over, but I couldn't beat this darn thing..yet.

With the holidays coming, this would be a great gag gift, stocking stuffer, secret santa or white elephant gift. It's fun and if you can ignore it's pompous attitude, you'll get hours of enjoyment out of it. If nothing else, you can watch as your friends and family take on one little book with a big attitude.



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Technically it's Thursday but I do have a good reason for not posting this earlier today. I was playing on the radio! Rob and I finally hooked up and I spent some time on TrainREK. It was a lot of fun. I haven't been on air in about 4 years and it felt good. I was right to walk away from it when I did and I think it's going to be right to go back to it again.

Now, for my picture! Corinna is going to tease me because it's one I took this summer but I'm just not totally back into the swing of things here at home so I didn't take a new photo. This week's theme is Game and I love this photo that Roger and I took this summer.

Both of these are from our Baa & Friends photo "blog" over on Flickr. These were taken right after Vegas (the grey monkey) joined our family. This other monkey was kind enough to show him some of the fun things he could do around here.

I know I've been missing for a while. I spent a week in Michigan and school has been a bit nuts. I'm back now though and what better to come back with than this week's challenge! The challenges for a bit are going to be two part..one part cleaning, one part organizing. I'm down to less than 2 months before my move and I swear you can't even tell how much work I've done. It's amazing how much I've crammed into this place.

Cleaning : Ok, my focus for this week is dishes. Since I need to start packing them soon, I ought to track them all down. With the boys, you just never know where you're gonna find a spoon. So, the challenge is to find all those dirty dishes and to get them all washed up.

Organizing: Well, I know we've already done bookshelves, but since that's my packing goal right now, I'm going to be focused there. For all of you, how about board games? I'm going to challenge all of you to go through those old games, find out which are missing pieces, which you just don't play with and which ones you just could never get rid of. Then, freecycle, thrift or donate those that you don't want anymore.

Please let me know if you're participating! I'd love to feel like I'm not in this alone.